package libavdevice-extra-52 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libavdevice.so.52', which is also in package libavdevice-unstripped-52 4:0.5+svn20090926-0ubuntu1~tj~ppa1j

[manolo]

I've just added the sunab ppa to Synaptic, as described here:
http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/downloading-and-installing-kdenlive/pre-compiled-packages/ubuntu-packages

and so, after reloading all the repos, I clicked on "mark all upgrades" button on Synaptic, but I got that error.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 11 15:39:44 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libavdevice.so.52', which is also in package libavdevice-unstripped-52 4:0.5+svn20090926-0ubuntu1~tj~ppa1j
Package: libavdevice-extra-52 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: ffmpeg-extra
Title: package libavdevice-extra-52 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libavdevice.so.52', which is also in package libavdevice-unstripped-52 4:0.5+svn20090926-0ubuntu1~tj~ppa1j
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and trying to help make Ubuntu better. However, you are not using a software package provided by the official Ubuntu repositories. Because of this the Ubuntu project can not support or fix your particular bug. Please report this bug to the provider of the software package. Thanks!

If you are interested in learning more about software repositories and Ubuntu the following pages should be informative:

1. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/components - information about Ubuntu repositories
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